Critical Chavistas have their own conspiracy theories

Aporrea, a chavista Web portal has increasingly
become a space for critical chavismo.
The term usually applies to people who defend the “legacy” of the Comandante and claim that president
Maduro has betrayed that legacy.

Conspiracy theories
about Maduro’s true intentions are an important part of critical chavismo.
Vivas Santana, for example, is not shy to call his own analysis a Teoría madurista de la conspiración contra
Chávez.

According to Vivas
Santana, Maduro´s conspiracy against Chávez, which includes Diosdado Cabello as
co-conspirator, began way back in 1999 with the approval of the Bolivarian Constitution.
The fact that now president Maduro has convened a new Constitutive Assembly in order
to “abolish” that Constitution is evidence, for the author, of Maduro’s
intentions, since that year, of stablishing a “neo-totalitarian project”.

Russia’s Vladimir
Putin is the main “international connection” of Maduro’s conspiracy. “Why did
not Putin invite Chávez, as Lula DaSilva did from Brazil, to treat his cancer
in Moscow if he was then Russia’s prime minister?” asks suspiciously Vivas
Santana. “It becomes evident that the origins of the conspiracy against Chávez
had tow clear long term aims,” answers the author, “The first was the abrogation
of the 1999 Constitution in order to ‘legally’ implement neo-totalitarianism.
The second was to sell PDVSA [Venezuela’s oil company] and hand our oil, gas, mineral,
and gold reserves to international groups, mainly Russian and Chinese, as a way
to consolidate power with the help of foreign governments with unipersonal
political systems and with enough power within the UN Security Council.”

Vivas Santana promises
a second part to his piece. In it he will consider “if the cancer that affected
the Bolivarian leader was really murder.”